After the storm that was his divorce from Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt has found love again, this time with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon, and reportedly, he is now “in a great place.” Just days ago, he addressed the chaos and headlines about his still ongoing legal battles with Jolie, calling it an “annoyance.” Interestingly, once upon a time, he unabashedly shared similar sentiments about his marriage with Jennifer Aniston and called Jolie his savior. 4k5k2a

For more than a decade, while his romance with Jolie was at its peak, Pitt sat down for a chat with Parade Magazine and spoke at length about how “pathetic” his relationship and life with Aniston had become.

“I spent the ’90s trying to hide out. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a t, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic.”

He further added that his life wasn’t “interesting” anymore and the blamed rested on his marriage. “I think my marriage [to Aniston] had something to do with it: trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t,” he added.

But apparently, all those twisted feelings vanished when he found Jolie, who turned him into a “satisfied man” as she took him to the “next plateau” in life.

“I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much,” he itted. At the time, Jolie was “a great mom” in his eyes, and he was practically gushing about having a partner like her in his life.

Well, all that changed soon. Jolie initially filed for divorce on Sept. 19, 2016, and they were legally declared single in April 2019. The final divorce settlement was finalized and legally signed off by a judge on December 30, 2024, officially bringing an end to the union. In the midst of the legal battle and even now, Pitt has faced shocking allegations of child and spousal abuse. While the accusations couldn’t be filed as criminal charges, his children practically denouncing their father and going as far as to drop his name has done little to exonerate him of the allegations.

Brad Pitt shared his thoughts on life, mistakes, and personal growth during the premiere of his movie ‘F1’ in Mexico City on Monday, June 9. The 61-year-old actor, who has been a constant subject of media attention throughout his career, spoke candidly about the importance of surrounding oneself with loved ones.

According to People, during a red carpet interview with Entertainment Tonight, Pitt emphasized the value of learning from mistakes and moving forward. The Academy Award-winning actor expressed his belief that challenges often lead to future successes, suggesting a more mature perspective on life’s obstacles.

In a recent GQ interview, Pitt addressed the constant media coverage of his personal life, describing it as a “nagging time suck.” He remarked, “It’s been in the news for 30 years, bro. Or some version of my personal life, let’s put it that way.” The actor dismissed the attention as “like this fly buzzing around,” while emphasizing that his life feels “contained” and “secure” with his close circle of friends and family.

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The actor’s journey to finding peace comes after a lengthy divorce process with Angelina Jolie, which concluded in December 2024. The former couple, who split in 2016 and became legally single in 2019, share six children together. The resolution of their divorce marked the end of years of legal proceedings between the two Hollywood stars.

Currently, Pitt has found happiness in his relationship with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon, whom he began dating in late 2022. Sources close to the actor revealed to People magazine that he is content with both his personal life and his relationship, describing the couple as being “in a great place.”

At the F1 premiere, Pitt reflected on the wisdom that comes with age, stating that surrounding himself with people who genuinely care about him has become increasingly important. He emphasized the significance of maintaining connections with friends and family, describing it as a “simple equation” for living a fulfilling life.

The actor’s latest project, ‘F1,’ which features costars Damson Idris and producer Lewis Hamilton, is set to release in theaters on June 27, 2025. The film, produced by Apple Original Films, will debut just days before the Austrian Grand Prix, combining Pitt’s acting career with the high-stakes world of Formula 1 racing.

Brad Pitt has seemingly reached a crossroads in his life. He’s simply too big of a fish to fit in whatever pond you can think of — and with a massive-budget movie and a divorce settlement that seems just as large, Pitt has had some time to contemplate his very, very public personal life.

GQ caught up with the Fight Club star for a cover story that featured him alongside his co-star in the F1 movie, Damson Idris, and actual seven-time motorsport champion Lewis Hamilton. Sporting a new look, the story naturally veered toward Pitt’s much-discussed interior life — unlike Hamilton and Idris, who have so far managed to keep a tighter lid on their personal affairs. For Brad Pitt, things could not have turned out more chaotic.

In a case of life mimicking art, Pitt’s production of F1 was filled with ups and downs, much like his marriages. In the GQ article, it’s revealed that the star was actually supposed to be in an entirely different car racing movie: Ford v Ferrari. That film was originally set to co-star Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise, but due to creative differences, it eventually ended up with Christian Bale and Matt Damon in the lead roles.

F1 was no walk in the park either — there was a writer’s strike, then an actor’s strike, and a ballooning budget that attracted quite a bit of bad press. Behind the scenes, Pitt was moving on from his long-term partnership with Angelina Jolie while also facing accusations from his family about his conduct during that period. Serendipitously, the final day of filming in Abu Dhabi reportedly coincided with the day Jolie and Pitt reached a settlement in their long-contentious divorce. Pitt was long-rumored of being abusive in their relationship.

Pitt was open about how he’s been feeling amid the constant media attention. According to him, this has been the case for three decades. When asked if filming his new movie at least provided a refuge from the negative press, Pitt pushed back, saying, “It’s been an annoyance I’ve had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do. So, it’s always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that. I don’t know. I don’t know.”

Pitt is clearly trying to manage all the pressures that come with his celebrity status by minimizing what he truly lets in. As for what his actual life is like, he says it is pretty “contained.” What fans see in the headlines, Pitt calls “just a version of my personal life.”

There are very few accomplishments left for the 61-year-old to chase in Hollywood. He’s won the biggest awards, worked with the most visionary directors, and broken all manner of box office records. He’s simply had a harder time figuring out how to deal with the press — and, as reports suggest, maybe even his own family. If he feels he needs to ignore everyone to gain control over that, then that’s what he has to do.

F1 hits theaters June 27.

As a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie is used to portraying various roles. But in real life, there’s only one role that she’s focused on mastering, and that is being a parent. However, insiders say it’s also the role that her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, longs to fulfill for their children. But then we all know the actor doesn’t really have their kids’ best interests at heart.

Pitt’s alleged history with their children does not really inspire confidence in his ability to parent them. If anything, it reinforces the idea that the kids are better left under Jolie’s care. As such, Jolie, 49, seems to be taking it all in and casually pulling the parent card to drive her ex up the wall.

On Thursday, May 1, Jolie stepped out for yet another publicized outing with their youngest son, Knox. The mother and son duo went grocery shopping in Los Feliz, California, and the paparazzi came prepared to capture their heartwarming bond in the parking lot.

Photos obtained by Page Six showed Knox almost towering over his mother as he pushed a cart filled with grocery items they had just bought from Lazy Acres. The actress, clad in an all-black ensemble, walked closely with her son, and she seemingly spotted the cameras at one point since she was captured flashing a smile directly into the lens.

Knox, who looked like a carbon copy of his mother, kept it low-key for their casual outing, wearing cargo pants, a “Little Tokyo” shirt, and a pair of white and gray sneakers. Jolie must have media-trained the 16-year-old as he kept smiling in every shot released by the outlet.

At first glance, it would seem like Jolie and Knox’s outing was no more than a cozy mother-son trip to replenish their supplies at home. But knowing how Jolie likes to flash the parent card in public once in a while, it’s obvious that she’s subtly sending a message to her 61-year-old ex-husband about why she’ll always be the better parent between them.

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Jolie’s latest outing with Knox is one of those moments that the actress seemingly stages to either annoy or show her former spouse what he’s been missing out on after allegedly being a sad excuse of a father to their children. In November 2024, she did the same thing when she brought Knox to the Governors Awards to parade him in front of the press.

At the time, an insider said Pitt saw the gesture as a calculated jab. “He believed it was meant to push his buttons,” the source said, noting that it happened while the pair’s nasty custody battle was dragging on longer than most celebrity marriages. Things did not end there as Jolie took another swipe at her ex in a subsequent interview, where she proudly said, “My work is not everything. Being a parent is everything.”

Pitt is largely estranged from the six children he shares with Jolie — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne. Although we can’t blame any of them for keeping distance from their father after reports of how he allegedly assaulted their mother and one of them during a 2016 airplane flight, which became a contentious subject in their legal battle.

So far, three of Pitt’s children — Shiloh, Zahara, and Vivienne — have opted to drop his surname and use their mom’s last name instead. Meanwhile, Pax penned a scathing post on Father’s Day 2020, calling his celebrity dad a “world -class a-hole” and “a terrible and despicable person.” If these are telling us something, it’s that Jolie has every right to parade her harmonious relationship with their children at Pitt’s expense.

When it comes to Brad Pitt’s love life, the story revolves mainly around his marriage to Jennifer Aniston and how it overlapped with the beginning of his romance with Angelina Jolie while strongly hinting at the possibility that he cheated on his wife. What many forget is that he was in love with Gwyneth Paltrow before falling for the Friends star, so much so that he openly, brazenly vowed to kill Harvey Weinstein.

A year before Pitt married Aniston and eventually married her, he was in a relationship with Paltrow, who was new to the industry and not the established actress she would go on to be. They began dating in 1994 and got serious with a speed that saw the couple engaged by 1996. It is perhaps an example of this devotion Pitt had for Paltrow that spurred him to confront Weinstein, an industry behemoth at the time, the minute he learned that he had laid hands on his girlfriend.

The Vanilla Sky star made the allegations in 2017 during a chat with The New York Times, revealing that she was cast as the lead in Emma in 1994, and during a work meeting in a LA hotel, Weinstein inappropriately touched her. She was expected to keep the interaction a secret, but she told Pitt about it, and he refused to remain silent about it.

She revealed more about the confrontation during her appearance on The Howard Stern Show, sharing that it took place at the opening of the Broadway show Hamlet in 1995 where Pitt told Weinstein that “if you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.”

“It was the equivalent of throwing him against the wall, energetically. It was so fantastic… He leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn’t have fame or power yet. He’s the best.”

The couple would break their engagement in 1997 and go their separate ways as, per Paltrow, she wasn’t ready to get married. But Brad Pitt remains the hero who stood up for her when she needed it the most and practically protected her from a sexual ab. Sadly, decades later, the actor would not be seen as the protector his kids and now-ex wife Angelina Jolie needed as they levelled serious accusations of physical violence against Pitt, alleging that he assaulted her and her children when they came to help her.

Just like their love story, the tale of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s separation became a big public spectacle after she accused him of abusing her and her children. The allegation may have never become a legal charge against the actor, but he has evidently lost the respect of his children, especially Pax, who called Pitt a “f – – king awful human being” in a deleted Father’s Day post. And yet, despite it all, she has no qualms about living it all again, including marrying her ex-husband.

Jolie had alleged that Pitt physically assaulted her and their children – he choked one child and struck another in the face when they rushed to protect her. The allegation was investigated by the FBI, but the Bullet Train actor is yet to face any charges. Three of his kids have already dropped his name from their surname, while Pax has made it pretty clear what he thinks about his father.

While no one knows the full story of what prompted the former Hollywood “It” couple to tie the knot after being in a relationship for a decade, a source had claimed back in 2019 that the Wanted star never wanted to get married in the first. But allegedly, “Brad pressured her” into saying yes.

But when she sat down for a chat with Hello! magazine, she shared that she would repeat it all, every good and bad decision, because she is who she is because of them. 

“I’d repeat every single one of them, and I would still get my tattoos! I’m a big believer in no regrets because you wouldn’t be who you are without mistakes, even big ones.”

For Jolie, the good lesson from her marriage to Pitt was learning to love herself and embracing the vulnerable part of herself. 

“At my core I’m soft and vulnerable — it’s not my dream just to be strong. I want to be allowed to be soft and I don’t want to be harmed or feel uned when I am.”

Though the ex-couple remains tangled in a separate legal battle over their tly owned French winery, Château Miraval, they reached a divorce settlement in December 2024, thus ending the dispute that has been going on for eight long years. While official details of the settlement are not public knowledge, it is presumed that Jolie gained custody of all six kids while Pitt has been granted visitation rights.

David Fincher has been tapped to direct a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Quentin Tarantino on board as a script writer and a leading man in Brad Pitt.

That’s enough buzzy names to send cinephiles into a downright tizzy (David and Quentin and Brad, oh my!), but those aren’t the only titillating details surrounding the film. It has been reported that the project, a follow-up to the original, Tarantino-directed first installment released in 2019, is being eyed for distribution on Netflix, where Fincher has a first-look deal. We also know that Pitt’s starring role will see him reprise the character of Cliff Booth, the Hollywood stuntman who appeared in the first film.

However, Pitt’s former co-stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, are not thought to have roles in Fincher’s sequel. Pitt-lovers (that came out wrong) have much to celebrate about this project, since his portrayal of Cliff scored him a Best ing Actor Oscar and his past collaborations with Fincher — including Fight Club, Se7en and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — are among his most acclaimed to date. 

Even with all that, there’s still more lore surrounding this sequel (buckle up, Fincherheads!). If it lands on Netflix, the film will mark Fincher’s third collaboration with the streamer, with his first two movies, Mank and The Killer, both sharing themes with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. What’s more, the sequel will be among the very few films that Tarantino has written but not directed, ing that exclusive club alongside Tony Scott’s True Romance and Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk till Dawn. 

NO WAY IS THIS A JOKE

— autist (@litteralyme0_) April 1, 2025

News of the project comes after Tarantino scrapped plans for what would have been his 10th (and supposedly final) movie, The Movie Critic. While dreams of that project have been all-but dashed, Pitt was attached to star in The Movie Critic as some version of Cliff, who we’ll thankfully still get to see, albeit in the Fincher-directed sequel. Naturally, a project of this caliber attracted the attention of legions of movie buffs, who took to social media to respond to what will undoubtedly be splayed all over their Letterboxd s soon enough. 

Fincher + Tarantino? This is gonna be EPIC!!

— paws for ackles (@thecinemadog) April 2, 2025

This is the craziest news I think we could have received in 2025

— DxTCinema (@DxTCinema) April 2, 2025

“NO WAY IS THIS A JOKE,” one wrote on X, with another adding “Fincher + Tarantino? This is gonna be EPIC!” Others quipped that “this is the craziest news I think we could have received in 2025,” or simply declared that “cinema is back.” Elsewhere, fans revelled in the collaboration between Pitt, Fincher and Tarantino, saying the sequel feels “like a group project but in a good way,” or announcing that the trio has them “sold.”  

Cinema is back @PlatinumEquinox @shoujohoe_ pic.twitter.com/YdlvNZGQrc

— Glenn Guishard (@Guishmonster) April 2, 2025

It’s like a group project but in a good way

— Lauren Jane (@ljbduranstan23) April 2, 2025

Tarantino? Brad Pitt? Fincher? Oh yes please

— muhd aisy (@muhdaisy13) April 2, 2025

Even with all the details we do know, what’s less clear is the title of the film, which hasn’t yet been announced. Call me basic, but I would simply love it if they went for the completely obvious choice that is Twice Upon a Time in Hollywood. Regardless of where they land on the title, best believe I’m going to be insufferable on Letterboxd when this movie finally arrives, whenever that might be.

In an audacious crime that would make the actor’s con artist character from the Ocean’s movies blush, a woman has been scammed into divorcing her millionaire husband and handing over the equivalent of $800,000 dollars after she was fooled into thinking she was dating Brad Pitt.

The 53-year-old French woman, who is going by the name Anne in the media, revealed to French network TF1 that her ordeal began back in September 2023. Shortly following an expensive ski trip to Tignes, which she had posted about on her socials, Anne received an Instagram message from Jane Etta Pitt, aka Brad Pitt’s mom… Or, at least, someone claiming to be her. “Mrs. Pitt” gushed over how she thought Anne would be a great fit for her son, who as the world knew was freshly split from Angelina Jolie and looking for love. “It is a woman like you that my son needs,” Jane Etta said.

The next day, a different ed Anne — and this time it appeared to be the Fight Club icon himself. “Hello Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more,” said “Brad,” using — we can only assume — the same pick-up line he used on both Angelina and Jennifer Aniston in the past, the sly dog.

Anne itted that she was “flabbergasted” to be speaking with the famous Hollywood star, and any misgivings she might’ve had were quickly swept away by their fast friendship. “At first, I thought it was fake, but I could not understand what was happening to me,” she recalled. “After that, we would each other every day and we became friends.”

To be fair to Anne, she was in an emotionally vulnerable place at the time. As per what she told Sud Ouest, her marriage to a millionaire entrepreneur 19 years her senior was in “tatters,” so when “Pitt” started love-bombing her with sweet talk and poems she fell hard. “There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done,” Anne told BFMTV.

After divorcing her husband, Anne embarked on what she believed to be a clandestine long-distance relationship with the A-lister. He even proposed to her and began sending her pricey handbags, although she had to pay a steep customs charge every time — amounting to 9,000 euros in total. Proving that she was willing to cough up the cash, the pretend Pitt kicked things up a gear.

Anne’s fraudster soon claimed that he desperately needed funds to proceed with kidney cancer treatment, as he was apparently unable to pay for it himself because Jolie had frozen his bank s amid their divorce. Anne was, of course, only too eager to help and ended up transferring him 830,000 euros for his life-saving treatment.

During this time, “Pitt” still refused to take calls, but he did send her a variety of photos intended to do away with doubts she might’ve had. These took the form of pictures supposedly showing Pitt recuperating in hospital or even taken during his surgeries. Although widely being reported as AI-generated, the obviously fake photos look much more like good old-fashioned bad Photoshop jobs.

All in all, Anne was duped for almost an entire year until she finally realized the truth upon seeing media coverage of the real Pitt stepping out with his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon. She went to the police with her story and the authorities launched an investigation in summer 2024. It turns out Anne is the third European woman to fall victim to the Fake Brad Pitt scheme. It’s currently unclear if she managed to get her money back.

Just to add to Anne’s misfortune, it seems many on the internet are offering her scant sympathy. Given the comically implausible images her crooked beau sent her, some just can’t fathom how Anne fell for the scam so completely.

As hilariously unconvincing as these poorly proportioned pics of Pitt are to those of us on the outside, clearly Anne was not in the right frame of mind when all this transpired and whoever ‘AI Brad Pitt’ is cruelly exploited that. At least, Anne is now free of his influence and is receiving the help she needs. As per BFMTV she is currently hospitalized at a clinic and is being treated for severe depression.

Angelina Jolie has made another confession amid the rumored tension between her and ex-husband Brad Pitt just as their divorce was officially finalized. Now she’s claimed that during a tumultuous chapter of her life, her “light was dimmed.”

The 49-year-old actress reflected on her struggles and artistic rediscovery while preparing to portray opera legend Maria Callas in her new movie. In an interview with Times Radio, released on Monday, Jan. 6, but filmed late last year, the Oscar winner got candid about how the role forced her to confront parts of herself that had been buried.

“I think you’re an artist, and you go through different things in life, and you wonder if certain parts of you have shut down, or who you are, what you have inside of you, and if your lights dimmed, and if you have less to contribute, or if you don’t know your yourself, and so to push and rediscover things and try for things that I hadn’t ever tried,” Jolie shared. She went on to disclose that she’s thankful for Maria because it “pushed” her to face “something that terrified [her]” at this point in her life.

Throughout the promotional run for her new film, Jolie had dropped several subtle digs against her ex-husband, so it wouldn’t be surprising if her latest statement also had something to do with him. In November 2024, the actress said “nothing else matters” to her, aside from her children with Pitt. The exes share six kids: Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16.

Then, in early December, she seemingly threw some major shade against her Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star when she said in another promotional interview that “being a parent is everything” to her. Jolie seemingly made those remarks as Pitt remained estranged from their children.

Pitt was granted t custody in 2021. However, their kids have mostly stayed with their mother since then. In recent months, the Ad Astra actor struggled to find a way to be with his children, with one insider revealing this past December that he was “begging” for some time with them on or before his 61st birthday on Dec. 18, or during the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, he was unable to fulfill his wish since the kids had been preoccupied with their mother’s packed working schedule.

Maddox and Max have been working with their mom on her new Hollywood projects. Vivienne collaborated with Jolie on the Broadway musical adaptation of The Outsiders. Meanwhile, Knox and Zahara took turns attending red carpet events with their mom. As for Shiloh, she’s busy attending dance classes based on her sightings and social media appearances.

Despite the longstanding issues between them, Jolie and Pitt finally settled their divorce about eight years after the actress filed for the dissolution of their marriage in 2016. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over,” her attorney, James Simon, told People about the settlement that took place on Dec. 30. Her Times Radio interview was reportedly filmed before that.

Now legally single, Jolie appears more than ready to turn the page. Yet, her words about her dimmed light suggest the scars of her marriage will linger on.

Angelina Jolie is making headlines again, not just for her stunning red-carpet appearances but for the bond she shares with her children. Since finalizing her tumultuous divorce from Brad Pitt last month, Jolie has been more open than ever about her life as a doting yet unconventional mother of six. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that individuality and freedom of expression reign supreme in the Jolie household.

The Oscar-winning star of Girl, Interrupted revealed in December that several of her children already share her love for body art. Eldest sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21, reportedly have matching bird tattoos that mirror Jolie’s ink, symbolizing their unbreakable connection. And as if tattoos weren’t enough, daughter Zahara, 19, recently turned heads with her dazzling display of piercings at the Golden Globe Awards.

On Sunday, Jan. 5, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, Zahara, 19, accompanied her mom to the star-studded event, sporting a jaw-dropping 28 piercings — 14 in one ear, 12 in the other, plus a diamond nose stud and a bold septum ring. While Zahara’s edgy look had everyone talking, Jolie wasn’t far behind, showing off her collection of earrings and a statement ear cuff. The mother-daughter duo looked effortlessly glamorous when they stood together on the red carpet, proving that style and self-expression run deep in the family.

Jolie, who’s currently filming Stitches in Paris, took a break from her busy schedule to attend the awards ceremony, where she was spotted catching up with longtime friend Salma Hayek. The two actresses forged a close bond while filming Marvel’s Eternals in 2021. In the movie, Jolie played the fierce warrior Thena, while Hayek portrayed Ajak, the Eternal group’s spiritual leader. Their friendship has deepened since, with Hayek even ing the cast of Jolie’s film Without Blood.

The project, which Jolie directed, has also become a family affair. Sons Maddox and Pax worked on the set as part of the assistant director team — a move that further proves Jolie’s commitment to nurturing her children’s talents while keeping them close to her. Speaking about their experience, Hayek shared with People at the Toronto International Film Festival that Jolie was “very professional” with her sons, adding that they earned the respect of the crew through their hard work. “They are very serious about what they do,” Hayek gushed and called the dynamic “kind of fun” but also deeply professional.

It’s clear that Jolie runs her sets much like she runs her home: with discipline, love, and a healthy dose of freedom. Hayek even described their role reversal during the making of Without Blood, explaining, “In [Eternals], I was a little bit of a mother figure to her. In this movie, I felt like she was my motherly figure because she would come to the set and run it like a family.”

Jolie’s family-oriented approach has become a hallmark of her new chapter since divorcing Pitt. Whether it’s bonding over matching tattoos, ing her children’s creative ventures, or simply dazzling alongside them on the red carpet, she’s showing everyone, including her ex, what it means to be a single mom in Hollywood.

As for the Babylon actor, he’s been trying to reconnect with his children but to no avail. In December, he was allegedly “begging” to spend time with them on his 61st birthday on Dec. 18, but it was impossible because many of them had already severed their ties with their estranged father. Of their six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne — only the two youngest are believed to maintain with him.

Angelina Jolie has a pet peeve we all can attest to at least partially share in — a deep disdain for liars.

Angelina Jolie is probably one of the most documented, judged, and celebrated public figures in our lifetime, so it’s no surprise that she chose Maria Callas as her big comeback to acting. And fittingly, she’s already courting Oscar talk for her lead role in the biopic Maria. Jolie was picked by W for an interview in the annual Best Performances special issue.

Maria’s story directly connected to a side of Jolie that gave her a clear pathway to breathe new life into Callas in a way that both introduces her to a new audience and clears up any lingering misunderstanding of her public persona. From the public criticism, her hidden illnesses, the vitriol toward her — all these are things Jolie has had to deal with as well in a very notable and public way. But what stuck with most of us was when Jolie shared with the magazine that, despite all these things she’s dealt with, it’s people who say one thing and mean another that remain her biggest pet peeve. In full, she said:

“So many things. But my pet peeve is somebody who is a liar. Somebody who feels a need to not say the truth or what they want, what they feel. There’s a big version of that—and I’m not trying to be heavy about it—but people who say one thing and mean another, who aren’t completely who they are. I think a lot of people don’t say what they mean.”

Jolie and Pitt have just recently finalized their divorce settlement with private counsel and a mutual agreement to seal the sensitive court documents that certainly would have given more context to their very acrimonious breakup, which had accusations of abuse and incessant mudslinging. Although a source commenting on this divorce told People that Jolie has vowed never to speak ill of Pitt in a public or private setting, it’s hard to imagine that her sharing her dislike for liars doesn’t at least take a subliminal jab at her former husband in a “if the shoe fits” kind of way.

Jolie herself may have taken the high road in this elongated divorce, but that doesn’t mean that her lawyers, business partners, and even shared children with Pitt have taken the same route. Jolie’s close confidants have accused Pitt of unbecoming behaviors such as alleged embezzlement from their tly owned vineyard and a vindictive PR war that maligned Jolie’s name.

The latter of which fans finally get some context of how it actually goes down thanks to the Baldoni-Lively controversy. Of course, Pitt’s representatives deny all these accusations, but considering his adult children keep dropping his name, it suggests there’s at least some truth to his accused misbehavior. So Jolie saying that liars are exactly the type of person she cannot stand certainly checks out.

Jolie and Pitt’s finalized divorce is just one part of their legal face-offs. Pitt has sued Jolie and her business partners for their unauthorized sale and purchase of her share — Jolie’s business partners are also countersuing for $250 million.

In situations like this, from the outside looking in, it’s difficult to even take any sides because it’s clear that these long, drawn-out legal and publicity battles are taking a toll on everyone involved. We can only hope that after the divorce, Jolie’s career can now take precedence and she — who seems to overly prioritize protecting her children — can now finally shield herself and them from the liars that keep circling around her life. Maria is currently streaming on Netflix, and Angelina Jolie has already garnered a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Maria Callas for what we consider her best performance ever.

Hollywood icons Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – once known as Brangelina – have finally ended their eight-year divorce saga with a hard-fought settlement that was finalized on Dec. 30, just in time for the new year. James Simon, Jolie’s lawyer, released a statement about the divorce agreement, saying that his client is “exhausted” but “relieved.”

“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family.” 

Jolie and Pitt first crossed paths in 2003 while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where they played husband-and-wife assassins tasked to eliminate each other. At that time, Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston, but the marriage ended in 2005, just before Mr. & Mrs. Smith was released in theaters. 

Jolie, meanwhile, was a single mother to Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia in 2002. In 2005, she expanded her family by adopting Zahara from Ethiopia, with reports indicating Pitt was by her side during the trip. The new couple welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh, in 2006, followed by the adoption of Pax from Vietnam in 2007. Their family grew further in 2008 when Jolie gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne.

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Months before their engagement in 2012, Pitt expressed his desire to marry Jolie, saying, “We’d actually like to… It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment. The couple married in Aug. 2014 in a ceremony held at their lavish property in , Chateau Miraval. The wedding was attended by family and close friends, with their six children part of the wedding party.

Two years later, Jolie filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. According to sources, part of the reason why the marriage didn’t work out was that the actress didn’t agree with her husband’s parenting methods, as well as Pitt’s “anger problem” and consumption of alcohol. At that time, Jolie’s lawyer said the decision to end the marriage was “for the health of the family.” Months later, the ex-couple released a t statement, saying that they agreed to work with a private judge to “preserve the privacy rights of their children and family” throughout the proceeding.

What came afterward was a back-and-forth court battle regarding the custody of their six children, as well as the division of their finances and assets. In 2019, a judge ruled Jolie and Pitt legally single despite their ongoing divorce settlement. Two years later, information came out about an alleged plane incident that reportedly led Jolie to file for divorce, stating that Pitt had been abusive toward Jolie and their children. The allegations against the actor were investigated by the FBI and DCFS, but no charges were filed.

After years of exhausting legal disputes, Jolie has now put one issue to rest. However, her lawyer said the divorce settlement is “just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago,” adding that Jolie is trying her best to be “light after a dark time.”